Notes on Alchemy

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No More Starving Artists
Javelin Laurence Javelin Laurence

No More Starving Artists

I went back to school and became a life skills coach because I see the ways the industry I grew up in is failing to teach the humans that make it up how to care for themselves at the same time as having a career here. It failed to teach me those skills, and I floundered for a long time. This failure to develop life skills while growing artistic skills is all too common for both early career artists, and humans who are technically mid-career now like myself. And it is ending the artistic practices of wildly talented people left, right, and centre.

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